In the year 2018, there were a total of 340 shootings in the United States. Of the 340 shootings, a total of 373 lives were lost. The city where most of the shootings occur was Chicago. The event with the most injuries was the Pompano Beach (Parkland) shooting which occured on February 14, 2018, with a total of 17 people injured. The event with the most deaths was the Pompano Beach (Parkland) shooting which occured on February 14, 2018, with a total of 17 deaths.
| Month | AvgDeath | AvgInjuries |
|---|---|---|
| February | 3.0714286 | 4.428571 |
| November | 2.2727273 | 2.818182 |
| October | 1.3333333 | 3.866667 |
| April | 1.0800000 | 3.520000 |
| May | 1.0714286 | 4.321429 |
| January | 1.0454545 | 3.954546 |
| September | 1.0294118 | 3.764706 |
| July | 0.9130435 | 4.000000 |
| December | 0.8125000 | 3.812500 |
| June | 0.7647059 | 4.274510 |
| August | 0.6000000 | 4.342857 |
| March | 0.5882353 | 4.000000 |
According to this table, the month where most number of people died from a shooting related incident in 2018 was in the month of February. It is the same month for the most numbers of injuries, too. Interestingly though, as you will see later, the month of February wasn’t where most of the shootings occured.
In April 29, 2018, a shooting happened in Seattle (Skyway). The shooting occured at around 4 a.m. in 12603 Renton Ave S. The 2 deceased victims died at seperate locations. 2 others were injured by gunshot wounds but survived. Additionally, there were 3 other injuries that were evaluated for “non shooting injuries.”
From the map, we can easily see that most shootings occur on the east cost. Before, we stated that the city most impacted by the shootings was Chicago. We see in this map that although Chicago’s marker does appear to be very dark, it wasn’t the largest. This tells us that even though Chicago is the city most impacted, the number of deaths and injuries in each shooting in Chicago is fairly consistent.
Other places like Santa Fe and Parkand, for example, had one major shooting disaster. From this map, we see that although we’ve heard of the events relating to the cities with big markers, we rarely hear anything about the cities with the smaller markers and we fail to realize just how much impact those cities suffer from gun violence.
According to the graph, the most dangerous month in 2018 was the month of June. Although June was where the most number of shootings occured, it wasn’t the month with the highest average number of people killed. In fact, the month which had the highest average of deaths and injuries had the least shootings in 2018.
As noted above, the most dangerous month to go out was June due to most of the shootings happening at around that time. However, what if you wanted to go out during the month of June and you’re worried about any potential shootings that might happen? Well to lessen your worries, I have compiled a chart that shows what days were the most dangerous and what days were the safest in the month of June.
According to the graph, the most dangerous day to go out was Sunday and the safest days to go out was Wednesday and Friday.I used a bar graph for both plots because I thought it would be the easiest to see the difference in. I used the plotly library because I wanted the give the audience and easy way to see the exact numbers (hover function).